Relationship Coaching

Relationships and Emotional Intelligence.

Psychologist Dublin

The things that people want to achieve in life – being happy, a loving relationship, a good job – are dependent our our ability to create and maintain relationships.  Usually we start of well, but can often run into problems as relationships progress.  So why does this happen?

Successful relationships depend on our ability to communicate.  The way we communicate depends on how we are feeling at the time.  For more information on this, see our article on “communication and emotion.”    Being emotionally aware and having the ability to regulate our own emotions is at the heart of emotional intelligence.  It makes sense then, that people who have high emotional intelligence are able to create and maintain satisfying relationships both in their personal and professional life.

Relationship problems are usually the result of low emotional intelligence.  Fortunately emotional intelligence can be built and strengthened.

Once you’ve learned the five key emotional intelligence skills, you’ll be able to create and sustain secure, successful, long-lasting relationships.

How does emotional intelligence help our relationships?

Usually when we start a new relationship or job, we are at our best, trying to impress our new partner or new boss, as the relationship progresses, we may find difficulties in our work, not being able to get on with colleagues and having difficulty in our personal relationships when we return home.  Successful relationships depend on an individual’s level of skill in 5 key areas of emotional intelligence. People who excel at work, easily overcome setbacks and have a happy home life, have high levels of emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize, control, and effectively communicate our own emotions, and to recognize the emotions of other people. When our emotional intelligence skills are well developed, we have a solid emotional foundation that helps us build strong relationships and communicate clearly.

If you have trouble with any of these skills, it’s not to late.  Emotional Intelligence is not something we are born with – it is a skill that is learned.   Emotional Intelligence can be formally assessed and we can work together to build your emotional intelligence in order to help you have more satisfying relationships and success in your personal and professional life.

If you would like to arrange an Initial Consultation you can do so here. You can arrange to complete your Emotional Intelligence Test here.

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